Create a global instance template that you can use to create a managed instance group (MIG) of GPU VMs.

## Explore further


For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

- [Create instance templates](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-templates/create-instance-templates)

## Code sample

### Terraform


To learn how to apply or remove a Terraform configuration, see
[Basic Terraform commands](https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/terraform/basic-commands).


For more information, see the
[Terraform provider reference documentation](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs).

    resource "google_compute_instance_template" "default" {
      name         = "gpu-template"
      machine_type = "n1-standard-2"

      disk {
        source_image = "debian-cloud/debian-13"
      }

      network_interface {
        network = "default"
      }

      guest_accelerator {
        type  = "nvidia-tesla-t4"
        count = 1
      }

      scheduling {
        on_host_maintenance = "TERMINATE"
      }
    }

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